Preview Port Adelaide vs Adelaide

[Doctor Feel]

I'm beginning to wonder if dog park isn't a euphemism for dogging.

Say what you want about Top Gear/Grand Tour but when Clarkson genuinely busted a young couple dogging in the thick fog I ****ing died.

 

[PAFC66]

Port home game experience:

Just cut off before the turnover.

 

[Capital Power]

Came over here to read Crow abuse, but didn't find any.

The mood over here is a lot more pessimistic than I expected. I know you're coming off a loss, but there's nothing shameful about losing to an in-form West Coast in Perth. I expect Port to come out ready for war against us on Saturday, following Ken's comments. You're overdue for a Showdown win, which scares me too. I expect you'll be on the front foot early, and the "Poweeeeer" chant to echo through the stadium immediately.

Focusing on the Crows, we seem to be projected as favourites which is something that never goes well for us in big games. Couple that with how average we've been against poor opposition in St.Kilda, Gold Coast and Carlton, I think our form this year has been overrated.

We have a pre-game banter thread on the Crows board - feel free to come on over and join in on the banter.

Can't wait for the game, genuinely have no feel for who is going to win.

Enjoy the game.

Abuse to all Crow fans and a pox on you sir for darkening our board.

Am I doing this right?

 

[finbarr]

I have 2 border collies. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. More likely I'm just an unsociable prick.

Generally speaking I’m a bit of a campaigner. But for my dog I’ll stand around and chat with almost anyone if my dog enjoys the company of that person’s dog. Generally though most people there are alright, and it’s a big open park.

 

[finbarr]

But it’s pretty much universally known that I’m “the Port supporter” there.

 

[Doctor Feel]

FinDogger

 

[finbarr]

FinDogger

You ‘aven’t lived until you’ve dropped your strides in the brisk outdoor wintry night air for an English lass called Deirdre.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Of course the teaching is a problem, that’s why the club brought in people to train the coaches to be better teachers. That was the one thing that Walsh could do better than anyone, and why we performed better when he was here.

When you turnover half of your 22, you’re basically starting again, because the time you’ve spent on the players who have retired or been traded is now flushed down the toilet. They aren’t dumb because they can’t learn. They are dumb because they don’t have the necessary real world in game experience that gives a player the education they need to know what method applies in a given situation. It takes 6-8 years to get to the level required, and that’s only if there is continuity in the playing list.

We can play McDonalds football, or we can play Kobe steak football. Both are made from beef. One can be cooked by a 16 year old and costs $5, the other is prepared by a master chef and costs $300. But only one can win the Michelin Star of a premiership.

Of course, not being competitive in the contest is like trying to cook without heat.

I generally agree, but at this point it feels like getting the experience and knowledge into the right talented players all at the same time to successfully play this style is like trying to thread a needle from across the room using a nail gun operated with our feet.

While we're trying to do that, our best players are rapidly approaching the end of their primes and we look no closer to the magical clicking point than we did 3 years ago.

Meanwhile other teams with less talented lists are using basic, easily understandable systems to win flags.

 

[tribey]

While we're trying to do that, our best players are rapidly approaching the end of their primes

Ryder, Boak, Gray and Westhoff will either be done or in Cassisi/Cornes-mode in 18-24 months.

They might be seamlessly replaced by Hayes, SPP, Wingard and Howard in that reliable star-tier, but historically speaking, we don't tend to do best-case scenarios.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I chat to everyone. Everyone chats to everyone while the dogs run around chasing balls and playing with each other. It’s what people do. Non dog people wouldn’t understand.

Non-dog people don’t have souls so their lack of interest in socialising isn’t a surprise.

Port home game experience:

Jonas to Clurey! Back to Houston! Back to Clurey! Clurey holds it! Holds it! HOLDS IT!

 

[OneGreatClub]

This feels like the flattest Showdown week ever

 

[finbarr]

This feels like the flattest Showdown week ever

Good. I hate showdowns and the build up to them.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Ha ha ha HAHAHAHA HA HA

Oh we are truly rooted

 

[Alberton Proud]

Club - We know a lot of supporters are really pissed off and won't show, but give your seat to someone else and let's set a new record

How about just fecking winning

 

[bomberclifford]

I've just seen the new Variety Showdown Trophy.

It's as bland, boring and poorly executed as everything else in this tinpot town.

My god I'm depressed.

 

[Papa G]

I've just seen the new Variety Showdown Trophy.

It's as bland, boring and poorly executed as everything else in this tinpot town.

My god I'm depressed.

A Silver Platter with the Bond Brothers on it.... Wow

 

[bomberclifford]

A Silver Platter with the Bond Brothers on it.... Wow

Could it get any more generic?

Standard circular silver plate
Ye Olde Ornament Option 3, around the edge
Default San Serif Caps etched around the top and bottom of the plate.
A colour photographic transfer of the Bond Brothers hugging dead centre of the plate.
Club logos placed on either side.

It is hilariously bad.

 

[malcheski]

I've just seen the new Variety Showdown Trophy.

It's as bland, boring and poorly executed as everything else in this tinpot town.

My god I'm depressed.

It's almost I'm ok not to win as that shield offers little motivation at all to win it

 

[Tibbs]

I wouldn't say I'm being encouraging, more that I like to call things as I see it. I generally engage with opposition fans on BigFooty before most games, and that usually doesn't get me very far by being a flog. I genuinely like to discuss and engage pre-game in a civilized manner for some genuine discussion. Seanybruz will back me up here.

Hey, you asked for banter! I'm giving you banter!

Non-flog oppo supporters are always welcome ... even from the crows!

 

[El_Scorcho]

Picking a photo with the feet cut off is extra special.

 

[Contested Marx]

just realised. where i sit, there's a row of seats behind me where it's basically the same guy and selected members of his extended family's friends group

so the entire game is him asking "how's so and so" because he knows EVERYONE on the Eyre or York peninsula. Has this know-all countrified way of speaking which is ok except he's so darn loud. Thinks he's funny with his dad jokes aimed at any children present.

Very occasionally he says "oh, why are they kicking backwards again, they always do this. Have you heard from Sue recently"

FML

 

[just_kick_it]

That shield is craptastic!!

 

[mic59]

A Silver Platter with the Bond Brothers on it.... Wow

The way we've been playing lately a trophy with a pair of Bonds on it sounds appropriate......

 

[Visenfest]

Or we could, you know, aim to win or something. If that's still a thing with us, that is.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Could it get any more generic?

Standard circular silver plate
Ye Olde Ornament Option 3, around the edge
Default San Serif Caps etched around the top and bottom of the plate.
A colour photographic transfer of the Bond Brothers hugging dead centre of the plate.
Club logos placed on either side.

It is hilariously bad.

So this

is supposed to be inspired by this

After Rucci has been angling for years that it looks a bit like the famous 1963 GF photo of the moment at the end of the game Norm Provan the big bloke and captain coach of St George embraced Western Suburbs captain Arthur Summons who was also captain of the national Rugby League team the Kangaroos.

The game was played in the mud, St George won 8-3. Norman Provan won 10 straight GF's with St George in that 1956-66 11 premierships run of theirs. He played as just a player in 1956-61, was captain coach 1962-65 and was non playing coach when they won it in 1966. Summons played rugby union and represented the Wallabies before converting to rugby league and became a dual international his first year of league and captain of the Kangaroos the next year.

It has become known as the picture of The Gladiators.

when Winfield became sponsors they turned the photo into the trophy for the premiers in NSWRL from 1982 to 1994 when federal government anti-tobacco advertising laws said they could no longer have naming rights after the existing contract ran out.

Then when Optus sponsored the NRL the turned it into this

And then Telstra sponsored it and changes it to this

and now since 2013 the 50th anniversary of the original photo, it is officially The Provan-Summons Trophy